Suge Knight says he would wreck the Keefe D trial from the stand

Suge Knight, the Death Row Records founder who was riding next to Tupac Shakur when he was shot in 1996, says he will not testify against Duane "Keefe D" Davis at Davis's murder trial, even though prosecutors regard him as a key witness. "To actually get on the stand, and point somebody out, it's worse than taking a gun and shooting that man in the head," Knight told ABC News. "I am not going to be responsible for sending another man to prison for the rest of his life."

Knight said his loyalty to Tupac "can never be compromised," and argued Davis has already incriminated himself through his 2019 memoir, interviews and past statements to police: "Everything he said and talked about, he already told on himself." Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to a single count of murder with a deadly weapon; prosecutors say he was the "shot caller" who ordered the killing and supplied the gun, and Tupac's cousin has been watching the case unfold in court.

Speaking to TMZ Live after jury selection began, Knight went further, saying multiple people were involved in the killing beyond Davis, and referenced a woman he identified only as SKT. He also delayed his own book, Your Pain Is My Joy, until September so it would not interfere with the trial, though he said he still won't name names in it.

"There's not a day that goes by that me, personally, doesn't think about Tupac, or I miss Tupac," Knight told ABC News. "That's my brother." His 16-year-old son, Legend, is also a rapper and has said Tupac is his favorite artist.

Knight has also compared his sentence to that of Courtney Clenney, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter with a deadly weapon in the 2022 stabbing death of her boyfriend and received six years with time served. "A white woman stabs a black man to death and kills him and they get three or four years," Knight told TMZ Live, contrasting it with his own 28-year sentence for the 2015 Compton case, which he says came after he was fleeing people who were trying to kill him.

Jury selection in the case began August 10 and the trial itself opened in Las Vegas, expected to run about a month. Knight is serving a 28-year sentence for a 2015 hit-and-run death in Compton, and separately, Tupac's stepbrother Mopreme Shakur has said he is cautiously optimistic about the trial.